Cognitive behavioral therapy is a common type of mental health counseling (psychotherapy). With cognitive behavioral therapy, you work with a mental health counselor (psychotherapist) in a structured... More > way, attending a limited number of sessions. By helping you become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking, cognitive behavioral therapy allows you to view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more effective way.
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This volume provides instructions for sessions 6 through 12 of the cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for adolescent marijuana users. The first five sessions (two motivational enhancement therapy... More > [MET] sessions and three CBT sessions) are described in Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Cannabis Users: 5 Sessions, CYT Series, Volume 1. Research provides convincing evidence of the efficacy of using cognitive behavioral techniques to help adult substance abusers (Stephens, Roffman & Simpson, 1994; Bien, Miller & Tonigan, 1993). However, relatively little has been done to test the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral techniques with adolescent substance abusers. This manual was developed to apply the cognitive behavioral approach to treat a specific type of substance abuser: the adolescent cannabis user. It provides a structured cognitive behavioral model that can be reliably delivered, monitored, and evaluated.< Less

Many people who live with addictions speak of sobriety. But the goal is not sobriety but recovery. Sobriety is doing without something while recovery is the reclaiming of something lost. Recovery... More > is reclaiming life. There will never be recovery without first there being personal change. Cognitive/Behavioral therapy is an extremely effective tool in moving a person towards personal change by challenging a person's belief system behind their behavior. Change the belief system and you change the behavior. The 12 Steps work in help people change but only as they are allowed to challenge how a person actually believes. This book is in a workbook format so that it can be a workable instrument which is meant to spark discussion and debate. As a private practice therapist I have included many examples that I hope would be found helpful.< Less

The treatment described in this manual was designed to address the problem of marijuana use by adolescent s. Sect ion I reviews the scope, effect s, and pat terns of the marijuana problem. Sect ion... More > II provides a brief overview of the Cannabis Youth Treatment project for which this manual was developed. Sect ion III covers the scientific basis for this intervention. Sect ion IV provides step-by-step procedures for actually implementing this treatment protocol.< Less

The Ink Seed: writing as therapy is a creative writing approach to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It combines practical application with soul-bleeding; encouraging the writer to purge everything from... More > the mundane to the complicated.< Less

'The Ink Seed: Writing as Therapy' is a creative writing approach to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It combines practical application with soul-bleeding; encouraging the writer to purge everything... More > from the mundane to the complicated.< Less

This Handbook represents an innovative response to the trend toward increased medical complexity in nursing home patients, and to the demand for greater behavioral health collaboration in their... More > treatment plans. It is a portable reference guide for health care professionals who want to understand the recommended cognitive-behavioral approaches for the co-morbid psychological issues impacting medical conditions in nursing facilities, including diabetes, respiratory disease, obesity and chronic pain, and diagnoses requiring rehabilitation, such as stroke and fractures. An array of assessment measures are discussed, and cognitive-behavioral treatment protocols are reviewed for twelve acute and chronic medical conditions. This Handbook will serve as an indispensable tool to help patients mentally manage their disabling medical conditions.< Less

This Handbook represents an innovative response to the trend toward increased medical complexity in nursing home patients, and to the demand for greater behavioral health collaboration in their... More > treatment plans. It is a portable reference guide for health care professionals who want to understand the recommended cognitive-behavioral approaches for the co-morbid psychological issues impacting medical conditions in nursing facilities, including diabetes, respiratory disease, obesity and chronic pain, and diagnoses requiring rehabilitation, such as stroke and fractures. An array of assessment measures are discussed, and cognitive-behavioral treatment protocols are reviewed for twelve acute and chronic medical conditions. This Handbook will serve as an indispensable tool to help patients mentally manage their disabling medical conditions.< Less

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